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• Overcoming financial constraints when budgets are limited and resources tight
• Building flexibility into outsourcing partnerships for scalability
• Fierce site competition: How start-ups can compete with established companies for sites
• Utilizing effective planning to improve study and program efficiency without compromising patient safety
• Agile and adaptable: Being prepared to adjust your strategy and approach as needed

Moderator: Keya Watkins, President – Oncology, Worldwide Clinical Trials

As oncology development grows more complex, CRO partnerships have become central to how programs scale, execute, and deliver. Yet in practice, these relationships are often more nuanced than the traditional value proposition suggests.

In this candid discussion, we’ll explore CRO partnerships from a biotech perspective – examining where they fall short, and what it takes to make them work in real-world settings.

• The strategic upside of CRO partnerships, including scaling with specialized operational and regulatory expertise
• Where partnerships break down, from misaligned expectations to gaps in execution, communication, and accountability
• When a single, integrated CRO model is most effective — and when a more tailored, multi-CRO approach better supports program needs
• What stronger partnerships look like in practice, with a focus on alignment, transparency, and shared ownership of outcomes

• Managing increasing regulatory divergence across the US, Europe, and emerging global trial regions
• Understanding the operational impact of evolving FDA expectations and Project Optimus requirements on oncology development programs
• Do sponsors know where the gaps are in the latest ICH-GCP E6(R3) and how can AI help conduct gap analyses across SOPs and study documents
• Assessing the current state of European harmonization, including ongoing challenges around submissions, approvals, and operational consistency across markets

Moderator: Keya Watkins, President – Oncology, Worldwide Clinical Trials

How strategic collaboration can accelerate innovation:

• Moving from transactional execution to consultative partnership
• How CROs can become strategic problem solvers, not just service providers
• Building trust transparency and shared accountability

• The factors/barriers for why patients don’t readily participate in clinical trials and how to address them
• Why targeted culturally humble communication is necessary for “marketing” clinical trials
• The benefits of navigation to retain patients
• Success story examples

Best 3 LinkedIn posts from day 1 with hashtag #CTO and @Clinical Trials in Oncology Event Series tagged will win a prize in day 2 morning’s prize draw during chair’s opening remarks. Deadline end of drinks reception day 1. You must be present to win!